life so far
Oh my mercy is this color and this room not GOREGOUS! Rooms like this make me want to start my design degree again ASAP.
Check out more of this room and how the owner created this awesome orange color at the LiveLikeYou blog here. It is Benjamin Moore Grand Canyon 118 with a coat of Antelope Canyon 125 on top. Beautiful!
More from The Homestead. I thought this would be the last post, but it is going to take one more to get all the pictures up. This is only because my computer is. so. slow. and it takes about 3 hours to put together 1 post and by the time I have uploaded 10 pictures I want to pull my hair out.
Chandeliers… yes. I love the orangey color of this room… kind of a burnt orange. That is why I love The Homestead, even though it was built in 1776 it and you feel like you stepped back in time when you are there, they have some awesome paint colors: pink, purple, orange. Love it.
Love black and white tiled floors. I want them in my foyer. Not that I have a foyer…
This is a pretty pink. Lovely. I love their bathrooms- the gold framed mirrors, the marble, the sconces…
Just lovely. This is in the pink ladies room. The poor women who were using the loo when I was snapping pics…
The hallway to the spa = pure bliss.
And the hallway is just lovely. Pinks and greens and blues and window seats and vaulted ceilings, I could live in this hallway.
Me lounging before my massage. The actual massage was not one of the best ones I have had, but the women’s lounge was just lovely.
Oh how I love art work grouped like this. This is what you do when you have a large wall to fill.
Leaving the spa… sad…
One last post on The Homestead to come!
Ugh. Half of the pictures I took are apparently too big to upload. I really need to learn how to work my camera. More from my trip to The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA.
The Great Hall (I think that is the name… this is the main drag, although I doubt George Washington called it the ‘main drag’ when he visited’).
Domes. Chandeliers. Yes.
Oh I love it.
Scones. Love them.
And I love me some chandeliers.
This is where my wedding will be someday.
Love this purple color.
Love the marble and the fixtures… and the mirrors. Love it all.
More to come… so many lovely pictures.
The other day in my post Some Great Colors I mentioned the Benjamin Moore Color Palladian Blue. Here are a few pictures of the color in action. This is actually in my childhood room which my parents recently just redecorated. I love the color, my sister hates it and says it looks like it belongs in a retirement home. What do you think?
Some great colors!
Old Navy 2063-10 By Benjamin Moore
In action:
Benjamin Moore Delano Waters 766
Benjamin Moore Westminister Gold 200
In action:
This pink is supposedly Benjamin Moore Pink Lilly… the room is from Domino but I’m not sure this color exists… I am away from home now but I will consult my Benjamin Moore fan deck when I get home. Either way, it is lovely:
Benjamin Moore Nob Hill Sage 450
Benjamin Moore Electric Blue
Recognize this bedroom? It is Carrie Bradshaw’s from Sex and the City. Electric Blue in action:
Restoration Hardware Light Silver Sage
In Action:
Benjamin Moore Palladian Blue
So apparently I really like blue… it is a great color, so calming!
I’ve posted before about my love for Pottery Barn Fan Decks… I am way behind on ordering them (a year behind, in fact). Just ordered the latest batch from them!
Speaking of Pottery Barn, I just ordered this Punch Bowl for a Christmas Party I am having, it is cute but very small…
I’ve mentioned them before but thought I would re-post since I just ordered the latest. Pottery Barn every season puts out a fan deck of its favorite Benjamin Moore colors. They are small little fan decks that are much easier to carrier around than, for example the massive Benjamin Moore Classic Colors Fan Deck. It is also a lot easier to pick a color because they already have some great ones picked out for you!
I was at a local paint store the other day picking up a fan deck- I asked the dude who worked there (for lack of a better term- paint guy?) if Benjamin Moore was the paint they sold the most of. He said yes and that he wished it wasn’t so. He recommended C2 paint- it is a European paint which he raved about.
C2 is mixed using 4 additional pigments that most other brands of paint do not use, which creates a richer, deeper color. They have a line of low VOC paints called LoVo, if that is your thing.
VOC’s, Volatile Organic Compounds are elements in paint that make it smell like chemicals and apparently not so good for the environment. You can find paints with no VOC’s but I’ve heard they are not the best quality of paint. Not to run Duron under the bus, but I have heard that they traditionally have been known to have very stinky paints which means they probably contained quite a lot of VOC’s. Hopefully they have cleaned up their act, it looks like they have from their website.
I really love some of the spaces that were featured in December 2008′s Domino Mag (yes, I just got it in the mail).
These photos below are from the apartment of Domino Contributing Editor Nathan Turner. I love his whole apartment.
{All Photos by Miguel Flores- Vianna}
Navy Blue is my all time favorite color. I would kill for that bed- I am dying for a canopy or a bed with posts of some sort.
Sisal Rugs are another favorite thing of mine.
Have I mentioned I like navy blue?
Benjamin Moore makes a great Navy Blue. Old Navy 2063-10 By Benjamin Moore:
{Actual Navy looks more navy}
Happy Day!
Pottery Barn’s Spring 2009 fan deck of their favorite Benjamin Moore Colors is available for purchase!
I always feel kind of silly buying them since I already own 3 Benjamin Moore fan decks (Classic, Color Preview and Affinity I believe) and the colors that PB picks out are in the BM fan decks I have. Still I must buy the fan deck 4 times a year when PB releases it as they do pick out some lovely colors from Benjamin Moore.
